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A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiours, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
Part 2 › Chapter 5: The same proved by the full Testimony of Antiquity.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As for them that say that many Congregations might per vices come to one Altar to communicate, I answer, 1. Let them make Churches as big as can thus communicate and spare not; though there be necessary Chapels or Oratories besides. 2. But remember that every Church used to worship God publicly and to communicate, at least every Lords day; and that there was but One Altar to each Church, and therefore but one Communicating Congregation. Doctor Stillingfleet in his Schismatical Sermon is for my Exposition.
As for them that say that many Congregations might per vices come to one Altar to communicate, I answer, 1. Let them make Churches as big as can thus communicate and spare not; though there be necessary Chappels or Oratories besides. 2. But remember that every Church used to worship God publickly and to communicate, at least every Lords day; and that there was but One Altar to each Church, and therefore but one Communicating Congregation. Doctor Stillingfleet in his Schismatical Sermon is for my Exposition.
Object. It is meant of one Species of Altars, and not one Individual.
Answ. Then it is meant also of one Species of Bishops in each Church, and not of one Individual.